Chance finds of coins and pottery fragments and a fine head of Minerva are
reminders of the Roman settlement carrying the Celtic name
Aballo, a
mutatio or post where fresh horses
could be obtained. Two pink marble columns in the church of St-Martin du Bourg
have been reused from an unknown temple (
Princeton
Encyclopedia). The Roman citadel, on a rocky spur overlooking the Cousin
valley, has been Christianized as
Montmartre
("Mount of the Martyrs").
